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My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

RACHEL COHN · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!"
In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS-the...
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Expelled

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A secret Twitter account
An anonymous photo
Everyone is a suspect

Will Foster's Twitter account used to be anonymous--until someone posted The Photo that got him and three other students expelled, their futures ruined forever. But who took the picture, and why are they...
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Gun Violence and Mass Shootings

Bradley Steffens · Referencepoint Pr Inc
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

"According to the Washington Post, there have been 150 mass shootings since 1966. These attacks have claimed 1,077 lives. Twenty-one of these shootings took place at schools and colleges, leaving 194 dead. While the carnage from mass shootings is horrifying, mass shooting deaths make...
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Nightbird

Alice Hoffman · Wendy Lamb Books, 2015.
Pages: 199
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman's bewitching Nightbird is perfect for ages 10-13: love and friendship empower a lonely girl to embrace her uniqueness and discover her strengths.

Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town...

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The Fall of Butterflies

Andrea Portes · HarperTeen
Pages: 386
Format: Print book

We Were Liars meets Looking for Alaska in a uniquely funny and heartbreaking teen novel about a passionate-yet-doomed friendship set against a backdrop of wealth and glamour.

Willa Parker, 646th and least-popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life....

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Fugitive Six

PITTACUS LORE · HarperCollins
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

This sequel to Pittacus Lore's Generation One is the second book in an epic new series set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series.

Newcomers as well as fans of the original series will devour this fast-paced, action-packed sci-fi adventure that's...

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Love and Other Theories

Alexis Bass · Harperteen
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

Love and Other Theories is a fast-paced twist on the coming-of-age novel and the romantic comedy that Kirkus Reviews called "careful, subtle, and aching" in a starred review.

Aubrey and her best friends made a pact to play by the guys' rules when it comes to dating. They're...

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Last Descendants: An Assassin's Creed Novel Series

Matthew Kirby · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

In "Last Descendants," Owen and a group of other teens located the first piece of an ancient and powerful relic long considered a legend-the Trident of Eden. This piece was sought by the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Templar Order, but before either organization could take...
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Trouble Never Sleeps

Stephanie Tromly · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Happily Ever After gets a serious makeover in this swoony, non-stop, thrill-ride of a conclusion to the Trouble Is a Friend of Mine trilogyDigby and Zoe have been skirting around each other for so long that you might think they'd lose their magic if they ever actually hooked up. But never...
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Thirteen Days of Midnight

Leo Hunt · Candlewick Press
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

In a devilishly dark and funny debut, a teen finds himself the unwitting beneficiary of eight enslaved and angry ghosts seeking bloody vengeance.

When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies unexpectedly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance: a collection of eight restless spirits,...
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Dream jobs in sports refereeing

Larry Gerber · Rosen Publishing
Format: Library Binding

Being an athlete is not the only way to experience the thrills of a sports game first-hand. Referees and sports officials usually spend more time in the field or in the arena than athletes themselves and are often just as instrumental to the outcomeand enjoymentof a game. Pursuing a career...
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The Weight of Zero

Karen Fortunati · Delacorte Press
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Pulaski knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Catherine's bipolar disorder, almost triumphed once; that was her first suicide attempt.

Being bipolar is forever. It never goes away. The med du jour might work right now,...
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Made for You

Melissa Marr · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital to discover she possesses a strange new skill - the ability to foresee people's deaths when they touch her. While she is recovering from her hit-and-run accident, Nate, an old flame, reappears, and the two must traverse their rocky past as they figure...
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Killing Time in Crystal City

Chris Lynch · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A teen runs away from his broken life and invents a new one in this dazzling adventure from Printz Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch. Crystal City called for him, and Kevin answered. And why wouldnt he? His relationship with his father is broken—as is his arm....
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The reader : sea of ink and gold

Traci Chee · Listening Library

"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
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